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Yay, the original Holy War! (vi, for the record)
I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.
vi is still included in the arch linux base system
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#172Is this a replacement for gist?
No. Gist is a service.
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I always wonder why I learned emacs over vim. There is never support for it.
Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.
true, but that's why we have evil mode[1], so we can have our elisp cake and eat our delicous sugary vim bindings too.
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Yay, the original Holy War! (vi, for the record)
I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.
That's probably not true, in that among the myriad distros there's probably one in which vi is nvi.
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#175All of the competition can only be good for us developers. This, ST3, Light Table, Brackets, etc. Bring on the text editor wars!
Don't forget IDE family like http://c9.io/ Edit anywhere just with a browser is a win IMHO. Also easy pairing.
Why not edit anywhere with an ssh client (ie. use vim)? Less overhead, more compatiblity with existing tools...
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#176holy cow this thing has like 70 repositories! And I found a screenshot... looks very much like sublime text: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6... edit: based on this[1], it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web [1] https://gist.github.com/elcuervo/eb68883f233baf5a46c8
> it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web I can confirm, from looking at the code. It uses CSS / LESS for highlighting, and CoffeeScript for client-side programming (eg, the fuzzy completion[0], or the autocompletion). The surprising part is that the editor doesn't seem to be a fork of either Ace or CodeMirror, the two big guys in the field. The hi…
Interesting. The whole Sublime Text theory takes another buff.
The tmLanguage syntaxing, while limiting, is still pretty damn easy to create and edit, thus I approve. The idea that you have to learn a new way to build new syntaxes for every editor out there is a big issue for me as if you're going to be on the edge using new templating syntaxes, flavors of other languages etc. you just have to be able to fiddle with syntax highlighting, especially with new editors with poor/incomplete syntaxes and few user created syntaxes to fill the holes.
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#178A text editor in a browser? There seems a lot of excitement about it but I can't work out why - can anyone explain? I'm not trying to be argumentative; I really am curious! It's for editing text and there appears to be massive excitement about it....?
It's not necessarily in a browser. It just seems to be using WebKit as an engine. This means that rather than having to embed e.g. vimscript, elisp, or Python into your editor to make it extensible, you get JavaScript for free. And graphics.
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#179Never thought I'd be excited for a text editor, but damn I can't wait for this to come out.
Me too! I'm a big Sublime Text guy, right, but simply put sublime is lacking, especially in UI flexibility and advanced IDE features, like intelligent autocomplete, type checking etc.
If this thing delivers sublime-tier quality code editing in the browser and desktop AND commands a big enough community to allow for even more features (due to being open source), perhaps even IDE tier features... Sign me the fuck up. I'm tired of using closed source crap, patiently waiting for the dev to get off his ass and build more API functionality.
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I love the edit markers in the last screenshot. But too skeptical about the performance of a text editor running in webkit. All of my experiences writing text online have been bad. So the jump into using webkit for an entire dev environment fills me with dread.
Have you used LightTable? It's quite fast as the editor. I'm sure Atom is similarly fast. It doesn't run in the browser; it just uses WebKit as the engine.
Light table is only fast is you are a slow writer, the vim mode in it is painfully slow. Webkit base editors like LT and Brackest are unusable to me.